The number of bronze and stone rubbings in this Library is 12,462 or 6,462 excluding copies. The largest part of our collection is the 2,820 rubbings of tomb inscription, and then the 2,826 rubbings of carved stone and the 771 rubbings of fortunate bronze (bronze script overall rubbings). The sources of bronze rubbings are mainly bell, cauldron and other ritual bronzes, in addition to sources such as measures, weapons and mirror inscriptions, all of them dating from the Shang, western Chou dynasties, the Spring and Autumn period, Warring States Period to the Han dynasty. The craftsman of the great majority of these bronze rubbings are Si-ding Chou （Kang-huan） in the Jin-si era, though some of them are marked by Geng Rong and Chong-si Wu.

The main resource of stone rubbings, on the other hand, is stele inscriptions. The scripts of stone inscription during the two Han dynasties include both Jhuang and Li while their contents includes stele records, caved inscriptions, preambles, broken slabs. Thus we can see from these rubbings not only the great achievement of stele building during the two Hans but also the development of the scripts of Jhuang and Li. Furthermore, some of the more than 1,000 rubbings of Tang stele inscriptions in our collection would provide us what are missing in the Complete Work of Tang Prose. With the hope of providing much better access to our precious bronze and stone rubbings for academic research, this Library has started the digitalisation of this culture treasure in 2005 and put it on line for public use.

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